I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England William Cronon …
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This is the fifty-eighth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (April 2 – April 8, 2018): Sunday #Wordcloud! Ice, Wolves, Sheet https://t.co/fFxQ57Nd4o #envhist …
I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” Frederick Jackson Turner “The Significance …
This is the fifty-seventh post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (March 26 – April 1, 2018): Sunday #Wordcloud is very 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 this week. University, …
I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge1 Linda Nash In Inescapable Ecologies: …
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This is the fifty-sixth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (March 19 – March 25, 2018): "…when the original Trans Mountain [pipeline] was …
I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies Jared Diamond In Guns, Germs, …
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This is the fifty-fifth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (March 12 – March 18, 2018): New Comment: Teaching the Environmental History of …
I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire by Stephen …
This is the fifty-fourth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (March 5 – March 11, 2018): The Snowpocalypse (aka the Great Blizzard …
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